[Author's Note] Again sorry this one took so long but I've been really busy with work and stuff around home. Well here it is, chapter 4 of Dark Mirror. This is where the start of the fighting begins and also had some of the funest parts for me to write. I don't have anything else for me to say so, read on and hopefully review. Thanks! ^_^
Dark Mirror
Chapter 4
In a large dark room there resides a large screen on the wall giving off a faint bluish glow. At the base of the screen are several Gazimon working on computer counsels. A dark figure walks up to the lead Gazimon; he looks at the screen and then down to the small rabbit type digimon. The figure, in a sense, seems to have a human appearance, only that it is completely shrouded in the darkness blocking out any distinguishable features. When the figure spoke its voice was very dark, and distinctively not human.
"Well? Any progress in finding out who these 'Guardians' are?" asked the figure in a cool and calm voice.
"I'm afraid we have no information to help you destroy them, as of yet master." replied the lead Gazimon as he turned around to face the shadow with an evil smile on his furry face. "It is only a matter of time though, however, we have found some texts that I believe you should see."
"Explain." the figure ordered, still in that calm voice.
"I'll put up the first one we found." said the Gazimon as he turned back around and typed several commands and the image of an old scroll, with writing on it in a very old language, appeared on the screen.
"I assume you have translated it?" asked the figure
"Of course," the Gazimon said as he typed several more commands and a translation appeared over top the image in green lettering, "it goes like this. 'Wherever great darkness and evil threaten the light, they will come to stop it. They are the Digital Guardians, chosen by the ancients to defend the Digital World from the darkness. They will fight the darkness to the end of time and beyond, in the end the light shall always out shine the darkness.' That's all that one says."
"Hmm, you said that you had more? Well lets see it." the figure ordered, the Gazimon nodded his head and typed several more commands onto the computer and the screen changed to show another old text with translation over it, only this one was not quite as long.
"If you ask me this one sounds more like a threat. 'Beware evil for the Guardians will stop you, they fight with many allies and in the end, you will be defeated.'" finished the Gazimon as he turned back around to face his master.
"How old are these texts?" inquired the figure
"We've dated the back to near the beginning of the digital world it's self." replied the rabbit.
"Hm hm hm," If the figures face was visible you would see it smile, "Do they actually think that a couple of old warnings will scare us?" the figure asked to no one in particular. "Tell me do you have anything else?"
"I'm afraid not, but I was wondering why we don't try to grab that Gennai guy and interrogate him, I can think of several digimon that would love a chance at it." said the Gazimon with a wicked smile on his face.
"That won't be possible, my spies have already informed me that he has escaped to the real world. And I'm afraid all of his counter-parts have vanished as well. How goes our other plans?" the figure asked the Gazimon in front of him.
"Let's see." replied the digimon as he typed on the counsel, the screen changed to that of a laboratory with a not so nice looking mechanical digimon looking out of the screen.
"Datamon, how goes our plans?" the figure asked the mechanical digimon on the screen.
"Quite well, and might I say it was ingenious of you to plant a bug inside the Overlords own castle and computer system. When the time comes we'll be able to take complete control of the network and the Digi-ports, the digital gates, however, will still present a problem." explained Datamon to his master.
"And what about the V-net? Have you found a way to take control of that too." asked the figure in a glaring tone of voice.
"Unfortunately no, the V-net if by far more advanced then the internet and it has internal security programs that protect it. We tried to destroy them but they seem to be able to replicate themselves so they can never be completely gotten rid of, that and the fact that they are quite good at keeping us out of their systems." said Datamon "Perhaps if we had more information..."
"I'm afraid that there is no more information Datamon, I have scanned the information on the Overlord's computer myself and there is nothing there, however, perhaps it is time for me to go directly to the source." said the figure as he cut off Datamon.
"If any one can do it it will be you master," Datamon said as he gave a slight bow, "long live the Ruler of the Network." Datamon finished as the screen flickered and went out.
In a large black canopy bed draped in red sheets lies the figure of the Overlord. A swirl of black smoke appears next to the bed, as the smoke clears the dark figure stands next to the bed looking down at the overlord.
"Ah, he looks so peaceful. It's amazing that a soul so troubled can give off this appearance." said the figure to himself. "I still remember the day I found him in the park, he was having trouble with a certain girl as I recall."
A scene with Matt, looking 10 years younger, walking through Odiba Park. He's walking down one of the less traveled paths and he gets to a bench at the end, he looks around in frustration that he had taken a dead end, he kicks a rock on the ground as he sets himself down on the bench.
"I can't believe she's doing this," he mutters to himself, "and just a couple months before our anniversary. I guess I should have known this would happen though, she's always had feelings for Tai, it's just, I was hoping it was just a crush. I don't hold it against Tai, it's just, I had the perfect gift for her." he reaches into his pocket and pulls out a strange pendent. It has an object inside of it that has the shape of a heart on it. "I guess I'll just have to find some other time to give her her crest, I just wish I had whatever power it is that Tai has that makes her love him."
A small column of swirling black smoke appears in front of Matt causing him to sit back on the bench trying to get away.
"What the!" Matt exclaimed as he saw the smoke.
"There's a way to get her back you know." came a voice from with in the smoke.
"Who are you?" asked Matt
"Someone who wants to help you get the woman you love back." said the voice
"What can you do?" asked Matt
"I can give you the power you want." said the voice in an almost sinister voice.
"And what am I going to owe you in return?" Matt asked with a quizzical eye.
"Why nothing, I just want to help you." said the voice
"Why should I believe you?" asked Matt
"I'll tell you what, if you don't want the power in the future you can just think about me and ask me to remove it." said the voice
"All right, what do I have to do?" he asked as he looked at the smoke.
"Just let me do the work." said the voice
The smoke began swirling around Matt, it swirled faster and faster until there was a flash of black light and the smoke vanished. Matt looked different now; he stood taller and looked more confident.
"Now, go get your woman." said the voice from within Matt's head.
A dark smile flashed across his face, his eyes flashed black just before he disappeared in a black puff of smoke.
"He was so pathetic back then, but even I have to admit that he has become quite the evil genius now. It is amazing what a little bit of dark energy can do to these humans." chuckled the figure lightly to him self. "However he is only a pawn, and when the time is right the Overlord will be over thrown. Now, why don't I see what this young man has on his mind." The figure was once again surrounded by smoke, which then began entering into Matt's ear. Matt's face immediately lost its serene look and took on what almost looked like fright. His body began tossing and turning violently until he shot up in bed with a cold sweat running down his body.
"That blasted dream again, what is it suppose to mean?" he asks himself "It always used to be so nice, just me hanging out with my brother like it used to be, but in the past few months it's ended different. I find myself strapped to a table with a dark figure standing above me; he keeps saying I was a fool to ever trust him. That I am insignificant in the grand scheme of things compared to him. Oh well, I'm not going to let some dream get in my way. Today is the day I get to the real world to conquer, and I will start with the most powerful nation on the globe." He smiles darkly as he rises from bed to begin his plans for conquest.
"Well guys, welcome to our base." Nathan said as he waived his hand in a sweeping motion in front of the digidestined. "Right now we're in the transporter room."
They are all standing in a fair sized room with a raised pad on one side, with a console in front of it, and a door on the other side. The door opened and in entered Tunskmon with a wooden rack with ten crystals on it in one hand and six tags in the other.
"Hey guys, long time no see." said Tunskmon in a cheerful voice.
"Ugh. Floramon was right," sighed Nathan holding his head, "Tunskmon get over here with those things."
"Here you go." said Tunskmon as he handed Nathan the crystals and tags.
"Thank you," Nathan said as he took the items, "Tai why don't you take care of the crests."
"Sure." said Tai as he took the crests and distributed them.
"But what about our digimon?" asked Mimi
"I'm getting to that, I just have to release them." Nathan said as he sat the rack of crystals down.
"The digimon are in those crystals, but don't worry. With how their digimon were talking they understand these crystals and should have them out in no time." explained Sora to everyone else.
"Exactly, now I need all of you to stand back." Nathan said as he held his hands in front of him and they began glowing. They glew brighter as a beam of white light shown over the crystals. There was bright flash and when it cleared, there stood ten digimon looking up at their human partners.
"Tai!" Agumon exclaimed as he jumped into his partner's arms as the other digimon had similar experiences.
Sora, Biyomon, and Gennai are standing off to side, near the door, watching the joyous reunions when Nathan approaches them and Tunskmon goes right out the door.
"Well they certainly are happy." remarked Nathan as he looked at them and then turned his head back to Sora and Gennai.
"They sure are, but why aren't you celebrating? I mean it's been just as long since you last saw each other, I thought you'd be just as happy." said Sora
"I am happy to see him, but there are more important things that need done right now. Work comes first, then celebrations." Nathan said as the doors opened, everyone else was too busy to notice but in walked two digimon.
"Hey Nathan, I thought I'd just stop by to make sure Tunskmon was behaving himself, but I guess he isn't here." said Floramon
"Yeah he left to … do whatever he had to do. So, who's your friend?" Nathan asked as he looked at Gabumon
"Sora, is that you? I hardly recognized you." Gabumon said as he looked up at her.
"That's okay, Tai hardly recognized me either. But I have to say you look great Gabumon, considering." she said looking down at Gabumon.
"You shoulda seen him when we first found him, we had to do a lot of repair work on him." said Floramon.
Nathan's watch suddenly beeped and he raised it to his mouth and spoke. "What is it Erin?" he asked into the watch.
"Nathan massive amounts of emergence patterns are appearing all over the globe, it's to much for the computer to handle. We're doing all we can but, I'm sorry there going to get threw and there's nothing we can do about it." Erin finished as Nathan's face took on a grim look.
"Floramon where are the other crystals?" Nathan asked quickly.
"There in the portal room." she responded.
"Good, you stay here with the digidestined." he said as he quickly ran out of the room.
"I'm coming with you." said Sora as she and Biyomon ran out after him.
They run through several hallways until they arrive at the room that Sora had been in just the night before. In front of the inner set of doors there is a large rack filled with crystals. Nathan runs over to the one console in the room, types in a few commands and the doors open to reveal a long tunnel.
"What are you going to do?" asked Sora
"I'm going to release the rest of the digimon so that they will go to their partners. Now stand back, this is going to take a lot more energy." he said as he began to glow with white energy. White light began swirling around him; he then raised his hands up and shot an immense beam of white light at the crystals just before falling to the floor.
"Are you all right?" she asked as she knelt down beside him.
"I'll be fine." he said as he looked up at the crystals. Sora looked up too just in time to see them glow with white light and then shoot down the tunnel. "Now it's up to digidestined around the world to stop him."
Davison Air force Base, Virginia
25 min. Southwest of Washington D.C.
7:35 P.M.
"Ah, Sergeant? I think you better have a look at this." said a soldier with a set of head phones on his head as he was looking at a radar screen.
"What is it Private?" asked a large, well built man with black hair and a mustache.
"Radar's picking up twenty unidentified aircraft heading directly this way." responded the Private
"Did you radio them and ask for identification?" asked the Sergeant
"I've been trying sir but there's no response, they don't even seem to have transponder signals." replied the Private
"According to this they should be within sight, someone hand me some binoculars." ordered the Sergeant
"Here you go Sergeant." said another soldier as he handed him the binoculars and then continued on his duties.
"My God." said the Sergeant as he lowered the binoculars and had a grim look on his face.
"What is it sir?" asked the private
"Their Devidramon. Their usually dark digimon, according to my training on the subject." replied the Sergeant as everyone in the room turned to look at him.
"Well maybe their not..." the Privates speech was interrupted by sudden explosions outside the control tower.
"Sound the alarm!" yelled the Sergeant after he picked himself of the floor from the explosions. An alarm could be heard outside the tower as pilots began desperately running for their planes. "Scramble the Mig's, and get a line to Washington. Tell them to get the President out of there."
Outside the tower planes were beginning to take off and engaging the Devidramon. Their weapons were working fine, thanks to all that was learned before the digimon were sucked threw the Digi-ports, but they were having no effect on the dark digimon.
"Sir the weapons are having no effect on the digimon. Our fighters are dropping like flies." stated the same Private in the control tower.
"Get them out of there." ordered the Sergeant. "They're faster then them so tell them to head for Washington to protect the President."
"What are we suppose to do sir?" asked one of the other soldiers in the room sounding worried.
"This," said the Sergeant as he ran over to a microphone and turned it on, "All personal evacuate the base. This is not a drill. Evacuate."
The Sergeant and all the men in the tower began running down the stairs to get out of the tower to get away from the base. Men and women around the base were running or scrambling to cars to get away as the Devidramon began destroying the entire complex.
1600 Pennsylvania Ave, Washington D.C.
Oval Office, The White House
7:47 P.M.
A man in his late fifties is standing, looking out the window. He is dressed in a grey suit and has silvery white hair. A young man in a black suit and sunglasses, with brown hair enters the room and walks directly towards the older man.
"Mr. President, I'm sorry but satellites confirm. Davison has been completely destroyed." said the younger man
"What are we doing now?" asked the President
"We're evacuating sir, the forces that destroyed both Davison and Andrews air force bases are heading this way. It is clear that they are hostile, Bolling is already sending a chopper to pick us up and Air force One is being prepped for launch at Dulles International as we speak." replied the young man who is obviously part of the secret service.
"Very well Jim," replied the President as they turned and began walking down the halls of the White House, "tell someone to start the civil defense sirens around Washington, we have to give our people as much of a chance to escape as we have."
"Yes sir." replied the young man as he began talking into a cell phone.
Helicopter Landing Pad, Just outside the White House
7:56 P.M.
The President and his aids are running out to one of the several helicopters that have landed outside the White House. The Secret Service man with the President earlier is still on the phone, he puts down the phone and turns to the President to speak.
"Sir they have just entered the city limits and they're heading this way." finished Jim as they all climbed into one of the helicopters.
The President digested this information and turned to one of his aids. "Lisa I want you to call over to Dulles and tell them to prep the second plane for launch, I want the Vice President and Chiefs of Staff taken to Cheyenne. That way they should be somewhat sheltered in the mountain."
"Of course sir." replied one of the aids as the helicopter gained more altitude.
"Sir look at that." said Jim as he pointed out the window. The president looked out the window in time to see several flashes of white light down in the streets. Out of the light came several new digimon each with humans in what looked like their twenties riding on their backs.
"Those are Airdramon and Seadramon," stated the President as he looked out the window, "and with the humans on their backs, they must be digidestined."
"It looks like they're trying to buy us some time." said Jim
"Then lets not let that be in vain, pilot get us out of here." ordered the President
The group of helicopters began flying west to get away from the evil digimon.
Dulles International Airport, Virginia
8:15 P.M.
The helicopters land with the President and company, immediately exiting to be greeted by several members of the secret service. The secret service quickly led them to one of the two planes with the Seal of the President and 'United States of America' written on the sides.
"Gentlemen what's the status of my wife?" asked the President to the men that were guiding them to the planes.
"Her and your family are being rounded up as we speak sir, they will rendezvous with us when we find a safe place to land and..." started one of the men as they reached the stairs to the plane.
"No, I want them brought to Cheyenne so they're as protected from whatever happens as possible." said the President as he cut off the other man and began climbing the stairs.
"Of course Mr. President." replied the man
"Mr. President, look." stated one of the aids as they reached the top of the stairs.
The President looked towards Washington to see several Devidramon heading directly towards them. "Someone tell the pilots to get these planes off the ground now!" ordered the President as he went aboard the plane.
"Of course Mr. President." replied one of the men as he headed for the cockpit of the plane.
"All right everyone take a seat, we're going to be taking off shortly." ordered Jim as everyone began taking seats.
The two large planes began moving forward on the set of parallel runways as thirty fighters suddenly flew overhead. They were the surviving fighters from both Davison and Andrews and they began to engage the digimon no matter how little chance they had. The two large planes took off and began gaining altitude, as they did every person on the ground began running to get away from the airport. The fighters continued to engage the digimon for several minutes until they broke off in pursuit of the larger aircraft, however in the struggle they had lost ten more of their fighters.
One of his many screens shows the plane of the President flying away with its fighter escort. Matt grins evilly as he watches the fleeing aircraft from his thrown room. "This is going better than I thought. I have destroyed their entire seat of government and I have managed to get their President on the run, hmhmhm. You can run Mr. President, but you can't hide." He continues to watch with evil glee at his quick victory when suddenly all of the aircraft on the screen merely phase out of sight. "WHAT! WHERE DID THEY GO! WHEN DID THEY GET CLOAKING DEVICES! BLAST IT ALL, MY PLANS HAVE BEEN FOILED AGAIN!" The Overlord was now fuming with anger as dark energy could be seen cascading across his body destroying anything small within range.
"Sir the cloaking field is running well, it should keep us and our escort fully hidden from any surveillance." said Jim as he sat down in one of the seats opposite of the President who was obviously disturbed by all that had just happened.
"Thank you Jim." replied the President
"If I may ask sir, what do we do now?" asked Jim as the President turned to face him.
"We need to contact some people who will hopefully be able to help us." replied the President as he got up and walked toward the command part of the plane with Jim following right behind him.
Above Grace Hill in the Guardian Base, Japan
10:25 A.M.
Nathan is on the bridge of the base along with Tai, Sora, and Gennai. The other digidestined are being shown around the ship by Floramon; Tunskmon, Starmon, and Gotsumon are working at things on the bridge.
"Well guys, what do ya think?" Nathan asked as he motioned to the bridge.
"It is quite impressive." was all that Gennai said.
Tai, however, made up for the small comment. "Impressive, this is amazing! With all the other stuff you've shown us, and I'm sure the others have seen, Izzy must be drooling over all of it."
"I'm sure he is." Nathan remarked with a small smile, despite what had occurred only a few moment before, when suddenly Erin's face appeared on the main screen on the front of the bridge. "Erin what is it?"
"Nathan, I've got the President on the line and he's wanting to talk to you." replied Erin
"President? Japan doesn't have a President we have a Prime Minister." stated Sora recalling her knowledge of government form ten years ago.
"That's true, but there's only one President in the world that would know how to contact us. That would be the President of the United States." Nathan said as Tai looked quite confused.
"But you said..." said Tai
"Okay so I fibbed a little when I said we didn't work for any government," Nathan said as he shrugged his shoulders at Tai, "we don't actually work for him it's just that he knows of our existence and we've help him out a few times. But what did you expect, Erin, Jen, Ken, and I were at one time American citizens and we still feel we are at heart."
A small cough could be heard from Erin. "Uhg Nathan, the Presidents waiting."
"Oh sorry, put him threw." Nathan said sheepishly, the image of Erin faded to reveal the image of the older man who had just went through a lot. "Mr. President, how may I...what happened." Nathan's tone immediately changed when he saw the look on the other mans face.
"We were attacked." said the President "I fear what has happened to the citizens of Washington since we were barely able to escape ourselves, and we had the aid of helicopters. I need to know what is happening."
"I'm afraid we have lost the battle to keep the Overlords forces at bay, but just before it happened I was able to release the digimon of digidestined around the planet." Nathan said
"I know, if it hadn't been for several of them we might not have escaped the White House in time. I pray that they are all right." the President said as he looked at Nathan through the screen. "I would like to know what you are planning and what other information you could give us?"
"We're going to do all we can to keep the Overlords forces at bay, but I don't even know if it will be enough. He has a good deal of numbers and he is harnessing the power of the Control Spires and Dark Rings, and my guess is the Dark Spirals as well. I believe our only chance will be to battle him face to face. It's the only thing I can think of at the moment that we can do to stop him." replied Nathan
"That may be but it would be quite risky would it not?" asked the President
"I think it's probably our only chance." said Nathan
"You are probably right, I should go now. I should address the nation before the media gets a hold of this and makes it any worse." said the President
"Very well, Gods speed to you sir." said Nathan, the President nodded with a slight sigh before the screen went black.
"So what do we do now?" asked Tai as Nathan turned back around to face him.
"Just what I said, all that we can do, and when it comes to facing the Overlord. May God be with us in that battle." replied Nathan as the reality of the situation sunk into all of their minds.
Air force One, Somewhere above America
8:55 P.M. EST 30 minutes latter
"Mr. President, we're nearly ready for your broadcast." Jim said as he poked his head into the Presidents office aboard the aircraft.
"What percentage of the population do you think we'll reach?" the President asked as he reached the door and began walking with Jim towards the conference room.
"In the country I would say nearly one hundred percent, for the rest of the world I'd say seventy-five percent at the very least." Jim said as his walk was interrupted by the President's hand grabbing his arm.
"What do you mean the world?" asked the President sounding somewhat annoyed that he hadn't been told something.
"I'm sorry sir, I thought you knew." apologized Jim for his failure. "Nearly every station around the world will be broadcasting your speech, many of them at their governments insistence. It appears that they feel you should have the right to inform the world of what has begun."
"In other words, they're just to chicken to tell their own people that our attempts to stop the darkness has failed and so they're putting the job on me." the President with a slight scowl on his face.
"No pressure sir." Jim said with a slight smile on his face as he tried to raise his bosses spirits.
A small smile made its way onto his lips as he repeated the same words. "No pressure." With those final words said they opened the door to their left and entered the conference room, the White House chief public relations officer was on the podium giving as much information to the American people as he could before the transmission went global. The President approached the podium staying off to the side out of camera view as he readied himself; the lead camera man gave the signal that they were now global as the man at the podium said the words that would introduce the man the world had tuned in to hear.
"Ladies and gentlemen of the world, the President of the United States." the PR man said as he turned over the podium giving a small handshake to the President before he stepped down.
"Greetings, and thank you for allowing me into your homes. Now, as you may know, earlier this evening digimon forces attacked America. Despite what you may have heard from listening to the media this was not a random attack. At 7:35 P.M. Eastern Standard Time, a squadron of twenty Devidramon attacked and brutally destroyed Davison Air force base in Virginia, just outside of Washington. A few minutes latter Andrews Air force base in Maryland was destroyed by another group of Devidramon. At 7:56 P.M they entered the Washington city limits heading for the White House and other Government buildings, we most likely would not have escaped in time if it hadn't been for the brave efforts of local digidestined, whose digimon had been returned to them only moments before. What I am saying ladies and gentlemen, is that our worst fears have been realized, the darkness that has been seen spreading over the Digital World was the work of an individual fueled by the powers of darkness. He goes by the name of the Overlord and, according to our sources, is in control of a great deal of digimon. However, only a handful of these are truly following him freely, most are under the influence of mind control technology. As we speak forces around the world are mobilizing to face this threat, here in America all emergency services are on stand by and all military personnel are on full alert. I assure you that we are doing all we can and we will not give up with our fight, so do all you can do to help and do not let your fear get the better of you. Good bye, and may God be with us all in this struggle." The light went out indicating the end of transmission.
"Nice speech sir." congratulated Jim as the President stepped away from the podium.
"Yes, I only hope it was enough to quell the fears of the populace." said the President
"I'm sure it was." said Jim giving the President a smile to reassure him.
"Well lets hope so, for right now we have other matters to deal with. We need to contact Norad; due to the Pentagon being destroyed they're now in charge of our forces. I want all D-12 fighters on standby and I want several squadrons launched to take care of those Devidramon. I want to show the Overlord we're not going to take his attack lightly."
"I'll get on it right away sir." said Jim
"The D what?" Tai asked to the phrase Nathan had just said. When it was announced that the Presidents speech would be broadcast globally everyone, human and digimon alike, gathered back in the Guardians library to watch it on the larger screens. After the speech ended Nathan began explaining some of the actions the President would most likely be taking, the D-12 fighter was just the first one he began on.
"The D-12 fighter Tai, it is the most advanced military aircraft of its kind." Nathan tried to explain.
"But Nathan what is the D-12 fighter, in all the time we've worked together I've never even heard you talk about it." said Kari asking the question for everyone.
"That is because you couldn't be told Kari, no offence to any of you but you have to understand that even we have to keep secrets." Nathan explained "However, I suppose now would be a good time to tell all of you since you might see them soon. It all began five years ago, back when the digital world was sealed off and the map began to go black. Even though it was only starting all of us Guardians knew that it could only mean one thing, that something bad was happening there. We didn't know how long we had until what ever was happening made it's way here, the reason we didn't tell you of our suspicions is because we did not want to worry you, anyway we knew we would not be able to defend both worlds alone so we began a joint effort between ourselves and the American government.
"Why the American's you ask? Well for one, they are the leaders of the free world and two; they had the resources and the ability to construct, train pilots, and to defend the world if the need arose. Now, the effort was originally deemed Project: Digital, however, it later came to be known as the D Projects. The purpose of this project was to create weapons and technology to defend against dark threats. The first of the things decided upon was the creation of fighter aircraft capable of either disabling or destroying digimon that threaten the civilian population, this was the beginning of the D series fighters."
After typing several keys one of the screens changed to show a fighter plane that looked as if it had only been modified from some other craft. "This picture here is an image of one of the typical D-1 fighters, they were nothing but modified F-15 fighter jets. At their maximum setting their weapons were only capable of destroying a Champion level digimon, and that was if they were not very strong. For defense their original plating was replaced by Chrome Digizoid which we ran a low level electrical charge across to help deflect low intensity attacks." Nathan explained before typing several more keys and bringing an image of a second fighter up on another screen, this one full of specs and information. This fighter was quite different, however, instead of looking like a hodge-podge it looked more like a cross between a stealth and non-stealth fighter. From the out side it showed no visible signs of weapons but the specs pointed to areas, which held retractable weapons. "As you can see the D-12 fighter is much more improved then it's ancestor. It is capable of achieving speeds of Mach 8 without causing extreme stress on the pilot, it's weapons systems are now able to do serious damage to even strong Ultimates, and all systems are under the control of the plane's central computer which responds to all of the pilots commands. All fighters since the D-8's have had the ability to cloak which will give them the element of surprise, the cloak however does have a down side. Ever since the beginning all D fighters have had an outer coating of Chrome Digizoid that had an electrical current running over it. As the technology progressed we found new ways to increase the current and modulate it so that it would be more effective against enemy fire. However, when the cloak is engaged it uses the power that would normally power the enhanced armor, this leaves the planes with just plain armor but with the cloak it works because they can't be seen."
"I have a question," said Izzy as Nathan nodded his head for him to continue, "what's to stop say some person who hates all digimon going around and destroying them, even the digimon of digidestined?"
"That's where the computer system comes in, all target locks go threw the computer for approval before the weapons are fired. One thing we found before the time change was that all digidestined digimon have, an added piece of data if you will, this data is added when a digimon is united with its partner and a digivice is formed. The computers are able to search for and detect that data and so it will not allow a lock on digidestined digimon." explained Ken Blaze "We didn't really think of it how you did Izzy but we were worried about how the wrong digimon could get shot so we knew we had to put that into the system."
"Uh I have a question."
"What is it Davis?" Nathan asked to encourage Davis to continue.
"I've been thinking how could you have kept this a secret, I mean there's no way. If these fighters are suppose to defend the entire world they would have to be stationed all over and there's no way they couldn't have been seen by spies of other governments." Davis said, all of the other digidestined and Gennai had been thinking the same thing but for some reason Jen's mouth was hanging open.
"Davis, thinking? Those two words just don't sound right together." Jen babbled only getting an angry glare from Davis.
"While you do bring up a good point Jen," Nathan said while tiring to stifle a small chuckle at Davis's reaction to his comment, "Davis also brings up a good point, that is if they were normal fighter craft. You see the D-5's were the first of the D series to begin using digital fuel cells; the reason was because they can take nearly any form of fuel and turn it into the power for the aircraft as well as make it extremely efficient. The reason they haven't been seen is because they are all based in the United States or it's highest security military bases abroad. When the fuel cells are filled with jet fuel it is enough for the planes to be able to circle the globe around the equator three times at Mach 6, that should give you an idea of how far they can go."
"Of course you guys have to remember the fighters are only one of the things that have been developed for this threat." Erin said "Many other weapons and technology have been developed based heavily on what we had before the time change caused when we were chosen."
"Exactly, many of the things you will need to be trained in because it will be for your own safety. However, for right now Tai, Izzy, Davis, and Cody should head back to Digi-Corps. If you leave now it should be somewhat after 12:30 by the time you get back and before you complain I'm saying this because there are going to be some very confused people over there and you will need to help assure them that everything will be fine."
"Well, all right." said Tai reluctantly "But you'll contact us if anything comes up?"
"You have my word." replied Nathan
"Then I guess we'd better get going." Tai said this just before he, Izzy, Davis, and Cody left the room to go back to their rides.
"So what do we do now?" Sora asked
"Now my dear, we begin our fight." replied Nathan
To be continued...
[Author's Notes] Well? What did you think? I said this was where the fighting would begin, even though it wasn't very much, but as you can see it's going to be more than the digidestined fighting the Overlord. Oh, if anyone can guess correctly who the dark figure was I'll mention you in the Chapter that he's revealed. Hint: The digidestined have fought him before. By the way, start reviewing people! I've only got a few reviews and I'd sure like to get some more to know if I'm doing anything wrong. As always, please R&R.